Media Professionals in Residence Programme (2023 Fall)

Media Professionals in Residence Programme

The School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong continues to run this programme for the second year, offering the world’s top media professionals an opportunity to share their expertise, engage with the campus community, and collaborate with university scholars. Participants will spend eight weeks on campus, participating in lectures and events, and serving as a resource for students, faculty and staff.

Visiting fellows in Fall Semester 2023

CHOY Yuk Ling

Co-founder and Editor of The Collective Hong Kong and a founding editorial member of FactWire News Agency. Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2021-22).

WU Chuyin

Senior Editorial Writer for Southern Metropolis Daily. Former financial journalist at Sing Tao News Corporation.

ZHANG Qian

Reporter and contributor of Caijing Magazine, Initium Media, and BBC World. Formerly worked as researcher at The New York Times in Beijing.

Public Talk Series of Media Professionals in Residence Programme (2023 Fall)

Our three fellows of this season’s Media Professionals in Residence Programme have given very insightful talks from various angles of being a journalist. Experienced journalist Zhang Qian delivered the first talk to kick off the series. She shared her ten years observation on how journalistic professionalism could be reinvented behind the drastic changes in communication patterns. Nearly a hundred participants attended the talk and a few seized the opportunity to ask questions to gain more in-depth understanding on the topic.

The second talk was held by Wu Chuyin, senior editorial writer with 12 years of experience in writing editorials, opinions and columns for market-oriented media. Her work covers a range of topics including important social issues, public policy analysis and gender issues. She is committed to triggering thinking and discussion on social problems through public expression. In the talk, Chuyin discussed about the restrictions faced under the current media landscape and how to write commentary under restrictions. The discussion aroused some quality questions from the floor. The event ended in applause and students have gained valuable feedback from the speaker.

The final talk of the series ended with a presentation by experienced local journalist Choy Yuk Ling (Bao), who is co-founder of The Collective, former producer of RTHK’s Hong Kong Connection and investigative reporter of FactWire. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2021-2022) and has received numerous Humam Rights Press awards. The topic of the talk, A Narrow Road Taken: Let’s Keep on Reporting, suggested a challenging media landscape as faced by nowadays’ journalists. Bao shared many incidents she had witnessed and reported in her past experience, inspiring many insightful questions from the floor.